BODY LANGUAGE is the new exhibition by Matthew Stone at V1 Gallery(Denmark). The solo show will include new photography, sculpture and collage.

Matthew Stone’s (b. 1982) human landscapes are monumental and
simple, strong and fragile. His mounds of naked bodies are presented as
multidimensional beings full of life.

The pivotal questions are of separation and return, of
challenges to perceptions of individuality. Separated bodies physically
return; placed together to undergo a romantic mutation that enables a
metaphysical reconnection. Stone uses the interplay of light and
darkness to follow sculptural curves and surfaces, awakening the
imagination’s desire to delve into the (c)overt.

It is this polarisation that creates the fields of tension in
all of Stone’s works. Our surroundings and ourselves often seem divided
into irreconcilable binaries: right/wrong, light/dark, good/evil,
I/other. Rather than rejecting these overly simplistic, seeming
contradictions, Stone proposes new contexts for their powerful
co-existence.

In his performative rituals and collectively-minded shoots the
camera becomes a shamanic tool used to invoke and create history,
rather than to document it. With art as his weapon of choice Matthew
challenges fear and denudes a newly defined optimism that not only
sheds light on (wo)man, but also on the endless possibilities we are all
composed of.

Matthew Stone was recently named the most influential living
British artist under 30 by The Sunday Times and Norman Rosenthal,
curator and critic, has drawn comparison to the energy of a young Hirst.
This is Matthew Stone’s first solo exhibition in Denmark.